Recap 2/2018 - what happened in the world of Apple over the past week

We are in the second week of this year, and as it turned out, it was definitely not one of the boring ones. In the world of Apple, the affair with the slowdown of iPhones is the most discussed right now, which involves both the controversial battery replacement and two incidents in Apple stores that took place during the battery replacement this week. Apart from that, however, several other interesting things appeared, which we will remind you of today. The recap is here.

We started the week with the somewhat unflattering news that Apple under Tim Cook is failing to get new product launches on time. In some cases, the time from introduction to the start of sales is really extremely long - for example, in the case of the HomePod speaker, which Apple introduced last June and still does not sell ...

The first summary of the latest iPhone performance slowdown case also surfaced early last week. Due to this move, almost thirty lawsuits worldwide are already being directed at Apple. Most of them are logically in the USA, but they have also appeared in Israel and France, where state authorities are also dealing with it.

At the beginning of the week, we also received new live versions of the macOS and iOS operating systems. In the news, Apple reacts primarily to newly discovered security flaws in Intel processors and older processors based on the ARM architecture.

During the week, we discovered a very useful website where you can find all the applications in the App Store that in some way support the so-called Dark Mode, i.e. the dark mode of the user interface. It is suitable both for iPhone X owners and for others who dislike the bright user interface of some applications.

As already mentioned in perex, there were two accidents at Apple stores this week. In both cases, it was a flare-up, or the explosion of a battery that was replaced by a service technician. The first incident took place in Zurich and two days later in Valencia. A technician was injured in Switzerland, the second incident was uninjured.

In the middle of the week, we thought about what the new iPhone SE could look like, what we would like to see on it and whether it has as much potential as its predecessor.

On Thursday, we wrote about another proof that even Face ID is not infallible. There was another case where the phone was unlocked by someone who was not authorized to do so in the system.

At the end of the week, there was also quite negative news for iPhone 6 Plus owners. If you were planning to take advantage of discounted battery replacement deals, you're out of luck. iPhone 6 Plus batteries are in short supply and Apple needs to get enough of them made before it can start the event. In the case of the iPhone 6 Plus, the discounted post-warranty battery replacement does not begin until the turn of March and April.

A new filtering feature appeared in the American mutation of the App Store during the week, which shows users applications that use a subscription as a payment model. It is now also possible to display applications that offer a free trial period. This news is still not in our version of the App Store, it should only be a matter of time before it appears there.

The last news of this week was rather interesting. The screenwriter of the last installment of Star Wars boasted several stories from the filming, where the old MacBook Air played the main role.

Discussion of the article

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"Apple under Cook fails to get products to market as quickly as under Jobs"

Eat the products as they are, but the system it contains is a shame.

So that when playing a stream that is loaded forward, it seems to me that the video being played goes back for 3-4 seconds and then a certain section is repeated as if it were a parrot, that's a shame, and I'm not saying that the player freezes when I play a stream from the Internet, only reloading the page helps.